CH66
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Ellesmere Port, Little Sutton and Whitbyheath, in Cheshire West and Chester.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an CH66 postcode. How census figures are added up
Gigabit coverage by postcode district
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In CH66, 97.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How CH66 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is CH66 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in CH66 at a rate of 53.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across CH.
In August 2026 alone, 187 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in CH66.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (883), other crime (391) and anti-social behaviour (176).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in CH66 was 47.6 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in CH66, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so CH66 has no single figure. Of its 24 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in CH66
MPs for CH66
- Justin MaddersLabourMP for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough88% of CH66’s postcodes
- Samantha DixonLabourMP for Chester North and Neston12% of CH66’s postcodes
- Sarah PochinReform UKMP for Runcorn and Helsby0.1% of CH66’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Middle areas in CH665
Postcode sectors in CH6610
Council1
Towns in CH661
Postcode districts next to CH665
Nearest rail stations4
More in the CH postcode area2
CH66 in brief
CH66 is a postcode district covering Ellesmere Port, Little Sutton and Whitbyheath, in Cheshire West and Chester.
About 36,342 people lived in CH66 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £222,750 in 2025 across 564 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 53.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in CH66 was £222,750 in 2025.
CH66 had 35,055 usual residents at the census.
In CH66, 97.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In CH66, 2.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.